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An Act of Defiance: Northern Mali Guitar Legend Baba Salah Plays for a Silenced People
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FlipswitchPR, LLC
Malian guitarist Baba Salah comes from the city of Gao, a remote trading hub nestled on the banks of the Niger river, situated at the edge of the Sahara desert. Ethnic Songhai, Tuareg, Fulani and Arabs - among other peoples - all call the city home and as the capital of one of West Africa’s most powerful former empires, it is arguably Mali’s most cosmopolitan city. Almost every facet of Gao is the product of a continuous melding of cultures, ...
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Jazz Returns To Baba Louie's Backroom On Aug. 3, As Pittsfield Program Features Gary Smulyan, Noah Baerman
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Ed Bride Associates
Berkshires Jazz Culminates First Fridays Artswalk With Two Extraordinary Guest Artists As part of its year-round commitment to ‘live’ jazz, Berkshires Jazz has scheduled a double bill on Aug. 3, featuring baritone saxophonist Gary Smulyan and pianist Noah Baerman. It will take place in the intimate setting of the backroom at Baba Louie’s Sourdough Pizza, where Berkshires Jazz has instituted a jazz series to follow Pittsfield's monthly “First Fridays Artswalks". The guest artists will be backed by the Berkshires Jazz ...
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Daren Burns' Onibaba to play Tophest 2011, a benefit to help LA Musician Chris Spilsbury, March 25th
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Daren Burns
Daren Burns ensemble, Onibaba is slated to play Tophest 2011, a benefit to help LA musician Christopher Spilsbury raise funds to pay his medical expenses for a car accident he was involved in last December 2010. Also appearing that night will be Los Angeles jazz musicians, Otmaro Ruiz and Joe LaBarbera and DJ Christoforo LaBarbera. Onibaba is Daren Burns, Frank Macchia, George McMullen, Scott Collins, Craig Bunch, and video artis Kio Griffith. March 25th 2011 8PM Taix restaurant ...
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Daren Burns's Onibaba @ Blue Whale (Los Angeles) on March 23rd
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Daren Burns
Daren Burns's Onibaba will be playing Blue Whale jazz club on March 23rd. ONIBABA exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly —Creative Music. The band was recently placed on the LA County Arts Commission's band roster for the 2011-14 term. DAREN BURNS—Fretless Bass/Compositions VINNY GOLIA—Woodwinds GEORGE MCMULLEN—Trombone SCOTT COLLINS—Guitar CRAIG BUNCH—Drums KIO GRIFFITH—Live Video “And ...
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Daren Burns' Onibaba and Open Gate Theatre @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock 10-17-10
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SoCal Creative Music
Open Gate Theatre @ (626)795-4989 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Onibaba: Onibaba exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly—Creative Music. Created by Daren Burns in 2006, the band synthesizes its sound by using elements of the Chicago avant-garde, jazz, rock, world, techno, noise, and classical, to create a new type of fusion that is definitely not the smooth, funky jazz of the 80's ...
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Open Gate Theatre @ Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Daren Burns' Onibaba Oct. 17, 2010
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Michael Ricci
Open Gate Theatre @ (626) 795-4989 Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock Presents Daren Burns' ONIBABA Onibaba performs post Jazz/Rock explorations featuring: Vinny Golia—Woodwinds Daren Burns—Fretless Bass George McMullen—Trombone Scott Collins—Guitar Craig Bunch—Drumset Kio Griffith—Live Video INFO: Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bassist, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how ...
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Dave Bass Quartet Featuring Ernie Watts, Babatunde Lea, Mary Stallings, and Gary Brown Release "Gone"
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All About Jazz
David Bass on Gone
The word Gone has several meanings for me...
There's the 20-plus years I was away from the music scene, then there's the feeling when your lover leaves and your heart breaks... alone and empty, and finally, the beatnik/hipster notion of an irrevocably cool person.
I have returned to music and am proud to present these original compositions brought wonderfully alive by the musicianship of Ernie Watts, Babatunde Lea, Gary Brown, Harold Muniz, and especially Mary Stallings ...
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Angel City Arts Presents: Onibaba Live @ Royal/T Aug. 7th, 8PM
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SoCal Creative Music
Onibaba exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal and the earthly --Creative Music. Created by Daren Burns in 2006, the band synthesizes its sound by using elements of the Chicago avant-garde, jazz, rock, world, techno, noise, and classical, to create a new type of fusion that is definitely not the smooth, funky jazz of the 80's and 90's, but a ...new living music.In live performance, the ...
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Daren Burns' Onibaba at Asto Museum
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Michael Ricci
Daren Burns, fretted and fretless electric bass player, composer, and improviser has been playing and composing music for over twenty years. Much of his musical interest lies in the area of improvisation and how to make new systems for developing improvisation in new ways. In the last few years he has also become interested in Indian rhythmic and melodic systems.
Onibaba, exists between composition and improvisation and is described as being somewhere between the light and the dark, the ethereal ...
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The Jazz Session #125: Harry Babasin
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Michael Ricci
You'd think that helping to invent a new genre of music and being the first person to play your instrument in a jazz setting would be enough to get you some headlines in the jazz history books. You'd be wrong. Meet Harry Babasin, the bassist who played on the very first recordings of what became bossa nova, and then became the first person to play pizzicato cello in a jazz group. He's now largely forgotten. In this interview, his son ...
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